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London hit by wave of looting after shooting protest

Sean O’Neill, Fiona Hamilton

August 8 2011, 1:00am, The Times

Thousands of extra police officers were deployed across London on a second night of violence as fresh questions arose about the shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death led to the rioting in Tottenham on Saturday.

Preliminary ballistics tests are understood to show that a police officer fired two bullets during the operation to arrest Mr Duggan last week. One killed him and the other lodged itself in the radio of another policeman, who was lucky to escape injury.

Mr Duggan, 29, was armed at the time but it is not clear whether he opened fire or even drew his weapon when police stopped him last Thursday.

Extensive testing on Mr Duggan’s gun, the police weapons and recovered bullets is continuing in an attempt to establish…